Karen Flinn Fowler, Strategic Advisor

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As President & CEO of Trisource Health, a highly respected healthcare consulting firm, Ms. Flinn Fowler has over 35 years of both hands on and executive experience in matters related to:

  • The development of medical facility and practitioner charge masters.

  • Medical facility and practitioner coding (CPT, HCPCS, DRG and APC), billing and collections.

  • Payer contracting, billing rules, billing and reimbursement methodologies and levels of facility and practitioner reimbursement.

  • Medical provider (MDs, DOs, DCs, PAs and NPs) compensation.

  • Medical practice valuation.

Ms. Flinn Fowler’s professional experience has included prolonged engagements with 3 Fortune 100 Health Systems and multiple large Multispecialty Group Practices.

Ms. Flinn Fowler currently provides consulting services nationally (from California to the East Coast) to hospitals, physician organizations, home health agencies, hospice and infusion therapy service providers. Her focus is on revenue cycle improvement, payer negotiations, payer settlements, billing rate analysis, physician compensation modeling and financial improvement plans. Ms. Flinn Fowler previously served as Senior Vice President and Vice President of Physician Integration and Managed Care for 17 years providing financial and operational leadership for multi-state/multi-facility managed care contracting team, financial analyst, revenue cycle management services (billing and collections), practice/facility acquisitions and physician/advanced practitioner compensation for HCA, Inc., Triad Hospitals, Inc. and Vanguard Health Systems, Inc. In addition, she has served as the CEO of Colorado Healthcare Management, Inc. – a full-service management service organization, Clinic Administrator for Gonzaba Medical Group, Operations Manager for the Primary Care Division of Kelsey-Seybold Clinics and Ambulatory Care Administrator for the University of Texas Health Science Center Department of Internal Medicine.